Crossword-Solution: MEINIE 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

And when that messengers of strange countries come before him, the meinie of the soldan, when the strangers speak to him, they be about the soldan with swords drawn and gisarmes and axes, their arms lifted up in high with those weapons for to smite upon them, if they say any word that is displeasance to the soldan.

Afterward it befell upon a day, that the Can rode with a few meinie for to behold the strength of the country that he had won.

And when he hath no war, but rideth with a privy meinie, then he hath borne before him but one cross of tree, without painting and without gold or silver or precious stones, in remembrance that Jesu Christ suffered death upon a cross of tree.

And ye, winged minstrels of her fair meinie, Being newly coated in glad livery, Upon her steps attend, And round her treading dance and without end Reel your shrill lutany.

Meinie: servants, or menials, &c., dwelling together in a house; from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning a crowd.